Mind free of tensions......Free of deadlines

Well.....all good things certainly come to an end...

MBA years have whisked past so fast. Yesterday, at the farewell party to our batch, I saw people dancing till the breakfast time in the morning. It was a real pleasant site to look at the content faces of people dancing without any tension/ frustration. That made me think about the relevance of the stress in daily job-life of any working professional in any industry/area.

The main thing that an MBA teaches is to cope with the less time and make most out of it. But it in now way can prepare how to excel at your job/profession by the means of all the time management techniques. The real learning of managing yourself comes only if the stakes are really high, and that automatically means the salary/bonuses linked to the same. So, with the increase in the work pressure, tensions (marriage to gf can be one!, or starting your own business can be another), deadlines etc etc...may cause many a persons to freak out sub consciously. This may result in their achieving much less than what they though they are capable of in the beginning of the job.

I experienced much of this during my summers at Becton Dickinson, where I came to learn much of the professional standards in the corporate office only. No amount of classroom teaching can make you learn the finesse of the corporate communicaions and behaviour. Some call it wearing a mask on your true self, and that may explian the mental labour whihc causes the frustrations at the end of the day.

Coming back to the people dancing with frivolity and carelessness. I got up from the bench and joined the final circle of the few dancing survivors of the night long revelry.....I experienced joy, whihc flows from the same carefree letting loose of the self as by the Jogis, Sanyasis and the mystics.